Riot

if you are more concerned
with property destroyed
than lives lost to abuse:
then you are the problem

if riots irk you more
than things they represent
more than those children killed:
then you are the problem

if you spend more time on
vindicating whiteness
than challenging black death:
then you are the problem

if you spend more time on
defending your straightness
than challenging queer death:
then you are the problem

your personal comfort
is not worth more than lives
the lives killed by your kind:
since you are the problem

when you bought into that
you, holier than thou
a 'pure- hearted' bigot:
you became the problem

if you think that riots
are so unbecoming
but you don't dare ask why:
you're the fucking problem

you have no right calling
yourself a liberal
you are not progressive:
you're the fucking problem

you don't care about them
the people who suffer
the people who have died:
you're the fucking problem

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